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Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 9:37pm PST
Improved BART poster
Poster-suitable for flyers! Print and bring to the march tomorrow: 11 AM Pier 1, Embarcadero....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 8:11pm PST
Counterprotest the Second annual "Walk for Life"
didn't see this posted on this site, so i thought i would repost it...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:07pm PST
1/21 in SF: "Faith in Choice: Reclaiming the Moral Highground"
5:00 pm - Gather at Dolores Park, by the stairs on Dolores...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:37pm PST
Abortion Before Roe: Is the Past a Prologue for the Roberts-Alito Court?
Throughout history, women have had unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. And throughout history, women have found ways to terminate those pregnancies....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:01pm PST
California State University East Bay Gears Up for Pro-Choice March
CSUEB tabled to promote counter anti-choice march in SF tomorrow....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 3:41pm PST
Walk for Life strategy on Saturday 1/21
Walk for Life strategy on Saturday 1/21:
Appear as much like the Stepford Wives as is humanly possible!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 2:34pm PST
Call to rise up, completely stop (anti-choicers) in their tracks and shut down their march
STAND UP AND BE COUNTED PRO-CHOICE BAY AREA!!
Anti-abortion advocates are trying to soften their hardcore profile at Saturday's Walk for Life West Coast, telling marchers to not to "bring signs displaying graphic images of aborted children" and to remain "100 percent peaceful."
Abortion rights activists are worried that their movement has gone soft in arguably America's most liberal city -- and California -- and are trying to toughen it up by urging supporters "...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 10:31am PST
Pro-Choice Demo
A coalition of abortion rights activists is organizing a counter-demonstration Saturday to protest a rare pro-life event in San Francisco. The demonstration—which is convened by the broad-based Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR)—will line the route of the “Walk for Life” and coincide with the 33rd anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:36am PST
"Rally for Life" on Tuesday 1/24 in Sacto
"Rally for Life" at 10am on Tuesday...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 9:39pm PST
SPOKES COUNCIL FOR SATURDAY!
SPOKES COUNCIL TO PLAN FOR SATURDAY...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 6:09pm PST
Challenge DiFi to Filibuster on Friday at 11am
Join us to go to Sen. Feinstein's office to demand she filibuster Alito. One Post Street in SF at Montgomery BART stop. This Friday at 11am....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 3:53pm PST
Supreme Court Ruling in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood Recognizes Protections for Women's He
The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) welcomed today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, et al, which unanimously recognized its precedent that abortion laws must protect women's health and safety....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 12:47pm PST
Alito Must Not Be Confirmed - Demand a Filibuster Today
Judge Alito's unwillingness to stipulate that Roe v. Wade is "settled law", as recently confirmed Chief Justice Roberts had, puts a woman's right to choose in great peril. This factor alone should be enough for Senators to vote against his nomination....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 11:39am PST
Should the defacement of the ads be protected under the First Amendment?
Chronicle writer chimes in with answer to those who cry foul over "free speech" issues and defacement of ads on BART....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 11:46am PST
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Becomes Liberia's President, First Elected Female Leader in Africa
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has been sworn in as Liberia's new president, making her Africa's first elected female leader. In an hour-long speech after the ceremony, she vowed to tackle a national debt of $3.5 billion, fight rampant corruption and improve gender equality. We speak with Emira Woods of the Institute for Policy Studies. She is originally from Liberia....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:51am PST
Fmr. Political Prisoner Michelle Bachelet Elected Chile's First Female President
In Chile, former political prisoner Michelle Bachelet has become the country first-ever female president. Running on the Socialist ticket, Bachelet beat her billionaire rival in Sunday's election. Bachelet is the daughter of an air force general who was tortured and died in prison after Augusto Pinochet seized power in 1973. She too was imprisoned by Pinochet's regime before fleeing into exile. We speak with Chilean-American writer Ariel Dorfman, Chilean torture survivor Emilio Banda as well ...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:49am PST
New Poster for Jan 21 Stand for Repro Justice
Stand for reproductive justice vs. "Walk for Life" is coming this saturday , here's a printer freindly poster in .pdf format you can post appropriately....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 1:40pm PST
9 months?
It seems there are changes in the works. A lame duck prezzy will get to replace a moderate voice of reason on the Supreme Court with handpicked right-white-man who thinks he knows what's best for the rest of us. Now there are ads on BART from the rightwingers.
Well we got our own ads!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 11:21pm PST
COUNTER PROTEST "WALK FOR LIFE" 1/21 ANNIVERSERY OF ROE VS WADE (audio/mpeg 20.3MB)
Anita O'Shea of BAYCORR discusses fights against attacks on womens' right to abortion, a comprehensive reproductive health care rights agenda, and organizing efforsts to confront the 2nd annual "Walk For Life" demonstration. (22 minutes)...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:29pm PST